Cobol to C GPL compiler


What is it?

Cobcy is a free COBOL compiler distributed under GPL rules. Cobcy is intended to compile ANSI COBOL sources. The current version does not yet support everything (in fact, some people use the word "puny" when describing the feature set), but enough for a beginner's program. The funny name comes from COB[ol]-C and a 'y' to indicate how to pronounce 'c'.

I am writing it for experience in compiler building and because reason was that no free COBOL compilers are available anywhere on the net. In fact, the only publicly available compiler, which is distributed as shareware, cobol650, is very nagging and difficult to set up (I gave up on it). cobol650's only value to me were the example programs, which I use to tests my compiler. I found them to contain a few bugs, by the way.

Anyway, read through the rest of the docs: